TISEC delivers Practical Pattern Recognition Workshop for NDT in Montreal, Canada, June 28-30, 2010
TISEC's ASTIA™ Above-ground Storage Tank Inspection and Assessment goes live, March 2010.
Level III UT Training course completed in State College, PA, March 2010.
WINS presents talk on ultrasonic guided wave potential towards helicopter maintenance to Indian Air force, February 2010.
WINS funded by Transportation Research Board to develop Bridge Cable Inspection Technology, February 2010.
Watch video of Wireless Acoustic Emission Sensor Network for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring.
2010 NDT Training Course Schedule is available now!
New look of TISEC's Super ICEPak® web site, November 2009.
Download and try out TISEC's Super ICEPak® today, contact TISEC for a trial key, November 2009.
New Brunswick DOT has awarded TISEC to inspect LRUT bridge cables on 3 cable-stay bridges using new MsS system, November 2009.
WavesInSolids acquires state-of-the-art equipment for enhanced Guided Wave Inspection Services for Pipelines and Bridge Cables, November 2009.
WavesInSolids delivers Acoustic Emission Level III Training Course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 5-9, 2009
WavesInSolids is awarded contract with U.S. Department of Energy for developing inspection technology for health monitoring of coal power plant components, August 2009
WavesInSolids presents a paper at NYC Bridge Conference titled "Structural health monitoring using wireless acoustic emission sensor network" in August, 2009
WavesInSolids is awarded contract with NSF for developing inspection technology for Steel Piles, July 2009
WavesInSolids presents "Acoustic emission input to inspection- based bridge maintenance" at theInternational Conference on Fracture & Fatigue in July, 2009
Portable Rail Head Inspection
WINS' long range ultrasonic technology (LRUT) for rail inspection is designed to be retrofitted onto Hy-Rail vehicles. The EMATs are housed inside and aluminum enclosure to protect the electronics from the environment. Inspect your track for internal flaws in conjunction with your weekly visual inspections. The sensor cables are installed along the Hy-Rail vehicle chassis into the cab of the vehicle and connected to the ultrasonic instrumentation. In-vehicle computer, keyboard and monitor are used to alert the rail inspector to rail flaws.
The LRUT technology is designed to detect the most costly rail flaws ~ head defects. Long range ultrasound travels axially in the rail at distances ranging from a few feet to a few hundred feet depending on the application. Powerful ultrasonic waves are reflected from transverse defects and rail breaks when the longitudinally traveling wave strikes the discontinuity.
Long range ultrasound is generated efficiently in rail using non-contact electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs). The EMATs travel along the rail head and introduce pulses of ultrasound into the rail head. The pulses flood the rail head with ultrasonic energy that reflect powerfully from transverse oriented rail flaws and discontinuities. The ultrasound penetrates underneath surface shelling and engine burns to detect hidden transverse flaws that are commonly missed by tradition rail flaw inspection techniques. The analysis software is embedded with artificial intelligence capabilities. Pattern recognition classifiers are used to classify defects in real-time. Each defect is tagged with GPS coordinates for follow-up inspection and reporting purposes.